What's happening around the farm.
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2011
The day started inauspiciously – the tractor which died in the field last night when I wanted to load the crates of carrots and bring them up, was still cold dead this morning. Tony recently replaced the battery, thinking that was the problem, but apparently we need alternator or generator work. The day quickly improved [...]
Posted in General on Nov 23rd, 2011
Chickens don’t like snow. They will venture out on packed snow, but really don’t like it when their feet sink in. Usually we start out with a light dusting and they are curious, hesitant, but figure it out. They are still in their summer campers, and usually will spend rainy days underneath the campers. With [...]
Posted in General on Nov 21st, 2011
I used to go to market in a Subaru Legacy wagon. Other vendors would sometimes stop what they were doing when I got to market to come look to see how much I had packed in. I’ve had more space with the RAV4, but it still takes a system to get stuff in, and sometimes [...]
Posted in General on Nov 2nd, 2011
They arrived about 11:30 from Penn Yan. The truck, trailer, and one of the Penn Yan men who works with these hoophouses. We had two helpers, plus Chico Braun and helper Andrew came over, since Chico also had a hoophouse in the trailer. This is VERY different from our other hoophouse. This one had welded [...]
Posted in General on Nov 1st, 2011
I actually end up peeling layers off when the sun is shining and temps are in the 40s. The broccoli plants are so incredibly much healthier now that it has dried out and cooled off. The Napa cabbage and pac choi are maturing. The savoy cabbage, red cabbage, broccoli, cabbages, etc that just hunkered to [...]
Posted in General on Oct 14th, 2011
I seldom feel like I have anything to brag about, and this isn’t really bragging. Rather I am sharing how good it made me feel to have a really nice looking market table last night at the Plattsburgh Winter Farmers Market. I got lots of compliments, but also, this is one of the few times [...]
Posted in General on Oct 11th, 2011
Think the farmers market season is over? Think again.The Plattsburgh Winter Farmers Market will open Thursday, October 13 at 3 p.m. in the City Recreation Gym on the Base Oval. It features locally grown vegetables including fresh salad greens, goat cheese, goat milk caramels, pastured pork, cheese from organic Jersey cows, free-range chicken and eggs, [...]
Whew. We’ve had worse thunderstorms than Irene. We made a lot of preparations, which paid off. We replaced the bottom boards on the hoophouse which were getting punky, so the sidewall tiedowns would be secure. I also fastened the ends of the sidewall plastic to the endwalls, and twisted the bottom of the sidewalls back [...]
Posted in General, Vegetables on Aug 19th, 2011
Plant (and insect and disease) growth is very arithmetic. In the spring when days are lengthening and temperature increasing, things planted a month apart may mature within a week of each other. Conversely in the fall, with decreasing day light and temperature, things planted a week apart may mature a month apart. Late fall and [...]
Posted in General on Jul 20th, 2011
We will experiment with a Thursday farmstand, 10 til ??? Not the best weather to commit to being outside, but Thursday is the best day for us to do a farmstand since the CSA has been fulfilled. If you come and I’ve taken it down, come on up to the house. I really don’t know [...]
